EPISODE 28: A Dancer's Mind

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

Conversation, Strangers, Park, Society & Culture, Random, Bench, Documentary

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Tom Rosenthal approaches a stranger on a park bench and asks if he can sit down next to them and record their conversation.

This is what happened!

Produced by Tom Rosenthal

Edited by Rose De Larrabeiti

Mixed by Mike Woolley

Theme tune by Tom Rosenthal & Lucy Railton

Incidental music by Maddie Ashman

End song: 'A Dancer's Mind' by Birdy

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0:00.0	Hello, sorry to bother you.
0:05.0	Can I ask you a slightly odd question?
0:09.0	I'm making a podcast called Strangers on a bench
0:14.0	where essentially I talk to people I don't know on benches for 10 or 15 minutes.
0:19.0	Are you up for that? Do you want to give it a go? Is there a day of the week that you favour?
0:47.3	I think maybe Sundays.
0:52.3	I like Sundays because when I was younger I used to go to church and that,
0:57.4	so I get that sort of slight peaceful feeling of, you know,
1:03.1	it's a day to enjoy yourself.
1:07.3	Yeah.
1:08.7	So you used to go and you're younger, but now you don't.
1:11.6	I'm not a Christian anymore, no. Oh, look at that.
1:17.6	But we've been visited by a magpie. Are you someone that says hello to them if there's any one of them?
1:22.6	No, do you?
1:23.6	I do sometimes, you know. So how, so why, can I ask why you're not a Christian anymore?
1:30.3	Well, there were a lot of different religions in my family, so it left me free, I guess, to
1:36.3	choose which one.
1:38.3	And someone introduced me to Buddhism when I'd stopped practicing all religions, and I found
1:43.3	that one just seemed to work for me
1:45.5	because I'd been a dancer
1:47.5	and things like rhythm are very important,
1:50.4	not just people talking to me.
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